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In message: <LC2-LFD60HAaaz7EjQx000000af@hotmail.com>
            "Lesly Weyts" <weytslesly@hotmail.com> writes:
: Hi,
: 
: I wanna buy a new laptop with a Pentium M (the newest processor from Intel 
: especially for mobile computers) and install freeBSD on it with KDE. Is that 
: possible ... I've heard that the architecture of the new CPU is different 
: and that Unix/Linux not run on those processors. Is that true or ... and if 
: it is true ... will there soon be support for the centrino-platform. I hope 
: it because I need mobile computers and I love the fact that I can work 
: longer with a Pentium M.

I have reports from people that they have the centrino laptops running
in wireless networks running FreeBSD, so I think that the CPU isn't
different enough to give FreeBSD fits.  I don't have a centrino
laptop myself, but given the reports I've had, I think this shouldn't
be a concern.

Warner